Hence on an estimated ballpark - Facebook daily consumes 924,000 KiloWatt-Hours with per capita of 3.08 KWh . Annually the per capita figure would be 1124 KWh /year or equivalent to emission of 0.75 ton of green house CO2 (Carbon footprint) which is half of NY city’s carbon footprint. Sadly with Facebook adding more ‘horses’ (50K more servers) to cater to our photo addiction - this number would increase to 1 ton of CO2 .
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Computerworld’s Seth Weintraub:
I’ve heard that iMovie will largely (if not entirely) be a Web Application and Apple would offer its users to “upload your movies to us and edit them there.”
I’m gonna go ahead and call bullshit.
Who Doesn’t Love Apple Stories?
Apparently Engadget readers really like Apple news.
Genesis
Last year, I played with the idea of posting my photos here each day (as well as my Flickr page) but never came to a conclusion. Now I have.
Today is the start of a new year. 2009 will be difficult, without a doubt. A new President will take office. The economic collapse will continue to effect people across the world. Our son will have his first birthday in November. Personally, I have several goals for 2009, which I’m sure will filter into Project 365: 2009. [001/365; 01/01/2009]
Project 365+1: 2008 Complete
Last night, I took the last daily photo for 2008. The project was harder than I thought it would be, but very rewarding. Here’s a slideshow of 2008:
iPhone 3G Gets Unlocked
Dev-Team:
- The unlock works exclusively with baseband 02.28.00. This baseband is provided by the latest firmware update (2.2) from Apple. - You’ll need to upgrade to this release using iTunes and then use QuickPwn to activate etc. There are plenty of tutorials about this on iclarified, bigboss, and other established tutorial sites. Because it works on 02.28.00, it is available to everyone on the planet. This means we don’t need to unnecessarily expose holes in earlier basebands, which is an important concern. - The application is a small daemon that is launched on boot. It injects the payload at boot and also whenever there is a baseband reset. You won’t notice anything about it other than that your third-party sim now works. It’s a small program and unobtrusive. There is no GUI (this is by design). - yellowsn0w is completely removable through Cydia, the command line, and iTunes.
History of the Time Square New Year’s Ball
A fascinating look back by Gizmodo.
Zunes Killing Themselves in New Year’s Eve Ritual
All over the world, the dozens of people who own 30GB Zunes are finding their beloved media players dead. And not just mostly dead. Really dead.
From what I can tell it looks like every Zune 30 on the planet has suddenly crashed. Is this a virus? A glitch? A time bomb? A disgruntled Microsoft employee? Planned obsolescence to make us buy a new one? Or just a terrorist plot to drive the free world crazy?
More on the Zune Apocalypse
With Zune users still banging their brown devices against the wall, Microsoft has yet to announce a fix. I am very curious to see how long it takes for a patch, but one thing is for sure: With a product family as berated and up-against-the-man as the Zune is, a sweeping failure of every single one (even of one model) of them is bad. Real bad.
As much drinking as the Zune PR team was already doing on a regular basis before today, you know they’re going to get hammered tonight.
Most Quoted Quote on the Internet Tonight
Steve’s health is rapidly declining. Apple is choosing to remove the hype factor strategically vs letting the hype destroy apple when the inevitable news comes later this spring.
This strategic loss will be less of a bang with investors. This is why Macworld is a no-go anymore. No more Steve means no more hype. Saying they are no longer needing [Macworld] is the cover designed by the worldwide “loyalty” department.
Espresso’s Beta Shows Up
Espresso, Macrabbit’s new suite of web-building applications, has hit beta:
As you may know, we planned to have Espresso ready in November. Unfortunately our schedule slipped and while we have an active private beta program, everybody else was getting a little antsy. With this in mind, we have decided to open up the Espresso Beta to everyone until we reach the final. Espresso is already a great editor — and we love using it ourselves — but we want to make more changes before slapping the official “version 1” seal on. This Public Beta allows us to do that without being an annoying tease.
Shameless Plug
Google Support Document 107906:
Browsers are getting faster and better at running web applications like Google Mail that use browser technology to its limits. In order to get the best experience possible and make Google Mail run an average of twice as fast, we suggest that you upgrade your browser to one of the fastest Google Mail supported browsers that work on Windows.
The options listed? Firefox, and Google’s own Chrome browser.